Tuesday, 30 June 2015

THREE LADIES

I don't suppose that there are many people who have a rose in their Elder tree, but we do!

Pink Lady

I very much like roses, though I would not call myself a rose expert, nor am I a gardener

in the accepted sense. I like to allow these plants to flourish and grow to their natural height and since I have been doing so we have noticed that a quite a few people in the locality are doing the same. Roses are now showing themselves mingled with all sorts of trees and shrubs and adding colour in surprising places.

Old Rosie

Old Rosie was grown from a cutting. She has a single layer of petals with a wonderful

scent. The only way I care for her is to remove the hips during her flowering season and

to cut out the dead wood. Then she has the freedom to grow how ever she chooses.

Old Rosie's gift to us is her scent, which wafts through the open window on warm summer evenings such as these.

8 comments:

Love Old Rosie. I agree about letting these old roses do their own thing. My Alexander Girault is just coming in to bloom. He should appear on my blog about this time next week. Unfortunately his perfume will not transfer.

Love roses and know next to nothing about how to take care of them so it's a good thing that most of ours are pretty independent. Our wisteria grows everywhere and our climbing rose keeps having to climb higher to get some light.

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I have a great many interests. Among them is writing poetry, taking photo's, the practice of T M and following a druid like path. What I am not nor have I ever been is subservient or fanatical. In the true sense of the term I am a free thinking person.